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Portal Vein thrombosis with hypertension
Hello From past 3 months in law has been diagnosed with jaundice and then we conducted mrcp in which report being normal with no abnormalities with liver, jaundice was bought into control and medication was stopped but in last month jaundice came back, we conducted several tests and did CT abdomen contrast where it said that "liver: normal in size (14cm) and show mild diffuse coarse and fatty parenchymal attenuation with slightly irregular margins. no focal lesion. the portal vein is mildly dilated upto 12 mm and shows thin hypodense central thrombotic strands within its lumen without significant stenosis. the intrahepatic portal venous radicals are normal. no evidence of intrahepatic biliary radicular dilatation. the hepatic veins and intrahepatic portion of inferior venacava are normal. few small portosystemic collaterals noted in perigastric, perisplenic and umbilical region" The doctor said that this is cirrhosis and liver transplant mght require, steroids started, can any1 check
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Needs upper Gi scopy and colonoscopy Plus needs some special investigation too To start exact medication
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